Over 70% of today’s long term missionaries have already worked overseas on a short term basis at least once.
What can Short Term Workers do?
- Work in Professional areas (eg teachers, medical workers, engineers, IT, etc)
- Church work (youth work, music, leading bible studies, etc)
- Theological Education
- ESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) - English as a first language is a sufficient qualification in many places.
- Administration, Building/construction
- Help in home schooling (to free up long term missionaries for ministry)
- All work is done on a voluntary unpaid basis
What type of people go?
- Christians
- All ages
- Those who are flexible, adaptable and teachable
What can a short term mission experience provide for the worker?
- Spiritual growth
- Deepened trust in God
- Opportunity to ‘taste it and see’ in regard to missionary work
- First hand, see God at work in the world
- Experience working cross culturally
- Develop a global perspective
- Understanding of difficult issues such as poverty and injustice
What do the missionaries on the field provide?
- Employment
- Help with accommodation
- Support and encouragement
What can the Short Termer contribute?
- Specialist skills
- Temporary work relief while full time workers on home leave
- Work assistance/back up
- Prayer
- Encouragement
- Fellowship
- Spiritual refreshment
- Help with physical demands of day to day living
Costs:
Short term workers would need to pay for:
- Transport to and from destination.
- Accommodation and food while on the field.
- Travel insurance, inoculations, etc (allow $1,000).
- Other Mission Agency fee (probable if position is found through another agency)
Two by 2 seeks to match up two people so that they can go out to serve together. Once you have been matched into a pair (or even during this process), you may like to start to get in touch with organisations that embrace the idea of sending people in pairs. Click on the following links to read more about these organisations and their opportunities for service:
African Enterprise
www.aeinternational.org/australia
ACC World Missions
Australian Christian Church/Assemblies of God
wm.acc.org.au
Australian Indigenous Ministries
www.aimpa.com
Chinese Church Support Ministries
www.amccsm.org
European Christian Mission
www.ecmi.org
Global Recordings Network Aus.
globalrecordings.net/au
International Nepal Fellowship
www.inf.org
Interserve Australia Inc
www.interserve.org.au
Kids Outreach International
www.kidsoutreach.org
Mission Aviation Fellowship – MAF
www.maf.org.au
Middle East Christian Outreach - MECO
www.meco.org.au
OM Australia
www.om.org.au
OMF International
www.omf.org/australia
Second Wind Network
www.secondwind.net.au
Servants to Asias Urban Poor
www.servantsasia.org
SIM Australia
www.sim.org.au
WEC International
wec.com.au
Wycliffe Bible Translators Australia
www.wycliffe.org.au